The exhibition being displayed at the Swedish History Museum (Historiska Museet) in Stockholm until 9 December 2018, however, tells a different story. 100% Fight - The History of Sweden is a touring exhibition and a part of the Heterogenous Heritage - Changing the Future project that focuses on diversifying the narratives about Swedish history and identity through exhibitions, publications, and a public conference called 100% Fight - The Future of Sweden. "The haters will love to hate this," says a review in the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper (Bäckstedt 2018), and it is hard to argue with this statement. 100% Fight serves up a Molotov cocktail of women, national minorities, transgender persons, people with disabilities, and refugees that is set ablaze with issues pertaining to the right to practice one's religion and the right to one's sexual identity-indeed, every human right that has ever been questioned or limited. There is no sign of such heated debates in the adjacent Viking history halls, revealing the true success of the exhibition: it provokes a wide range of reactions and motivates people to talk and become more engaged with one another and with the material.
Exhibition review.